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Previews + reviews: books: on the month's new releases.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Previews + reviews: books: on the month's new releases.(The Beautiful Miscellaneous)(This Time This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood)(Forgive Me)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
If genius truly skips a generation, what becomes of the moderately stellar offspring of brilliant parents?In his wry and affecting THE BEAUTIFUL MISCELLANEOUS, Austinite DOMINIC SMITH probes the fate of Nathan Nelson, who must suffer his quark-physicist father's efforts--whiz kid camps, science drills--to mold him into a prodigy. While Mrs. Nelson retreats into obsessive house wifery, the disappointed professor buries himself in work, emerging only to ensure that his son is "still breathing...

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